The economic phenomenon known as the "tragedy of the commons" instructs us that commonly-held resources that are insufficiently protected will be plundered
to extinction. The phenomenon was recognized in the early nineteenth century to explain why the commons in England quickly came to be denuded by sheep. All
sheepherders had an equal right to graze sheep on the commons. There of

Author(s): No creator set

License information

Related content

No related items provided in this feed

PES Celebration This artefact outlines the creation of a new website for Innovation North students holding details of all work placements (short, long term, voluntary, paid).The Institute for Enterprise funded the project and the money helped pay a student to maintain the website for a yearAuthor(s): Creator not set

Israeli air strikes light up night sky in Gaza Israeli air strikes hit Gaza after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Israel's military campaign may be extended. Gavino Garay reports.
Subscribe: http://smarturl.it/reuterssubscribe
More updates and breaking news: http://smarturl.it/BreakingNews
Reuters tells the world's stories like no one else. As the largest international multimedia news provider, Reuters provides coverage around the globe and across topics including business, financial, national, and international news. For ovAuthor(s): No creator set

As in most other fields, the growth of information technology has revolutionised law reporting and law finding. Many of the law reports mentioned above are available both on DVD-ROM and via the internet through legal databases such as Justis, Lawtel, Lexis-Nexis and Westlaw UK. Many such databases, however, require you to complete a registration process and there may be a charge for the service. Altrnatively they may be available, for free, to registered university or college students studyin

Math Shorts Episode 7 - Scientific Notation This three-minute Math Shorts episode explains the term scientific notation and provides several examples in converting extreme numbers to and from scientific notation. It also demonstrates how to multiply numbers using scientific notation.

Please visit the PBS Learning Media library (pbslearningmedia.org/resource/muen-math­-ee-scientific-notation/scientific-notat­ion/) to access the supplementary learning materials included with this video.

This video was Author(s): No creator set

License information

Related content

No related items provided in this feed

Counting By Seven The Counting By Sevens song by Have Fun Teaching is a great way to teach and learn counting by seven. Kids will learn how to count by 7 all the way to 98. (03:04)Author(s): No creator set

License information

Related content

No related items provided in this feed

How the Skeletal System Works Bones come in all shapes in sizes. Learn information about your skeletal systems as well as the location of some of the major bones in your body with this short, animated video by Kids Health. Author(s): No creator set

License information

Related content

No related items provided in this feed

Top 25 Japanese Questions You Need to Know #20 - What’s the weather like? in Japanese Learn Japanese with JapanesePod101.com! The more Japanese people you talk to in Japanese, the more you realize they are confused about the seasons being opposite where you’re from. You suppose the idea does take some getting used to!
In this lesson, you will learn the question What’s the weather like? in Japanese and how to answer [...]Author(s): JapanesePod101.com

License information

Related content

Rights not set

No related items provided in this feed

Math Shorts Episode 15 - Applying the Pythagorean Theorem Learn how using the Pythagorean theorem can help people solve real-world problems involving distances in this Math Shorts video. This video was made for the PBS LearningMedia library, thanks to a generous grant from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. It was produced in collaboration with Utah Education Network.

Common Core State Standards:
CCSS.Math.Content.8.G.B.8 (Grade 8):
Apply the Pythagorean Theorem to find the distance between two points in a coordinate systAuthor(s): No creator set

License information

Related content

No related items provided in this feed

Math Shorts Episode 13 - Long Division This animated "Math Shorts" clearly illustrates the standard division algorithm. This video was made for the PBS Learning Media library, thanks to a generous grant from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. It was produced in collaboration with Utah Education Network.

Common Core State Standards:
CCSS.Math.Content.6.NS.B.2 (Grade 6):
Fluently divide multi-digit numbers using the standard algorithm.
(02:10)Author(s): No creator set

Although Donald Trump may strike a deal with North Korea after this week’s historic summit, in the long run his destructive approach to foreign policy will damage America and the world. Plus, the remote villages in rural China receiving express delivery by drone. And is the beautiful game a religion, a science or a fine art? Richard Cockett hosts. Music by Chris Zabriskie “Divider” (CC by 4.0 UK)

There has also been continued debate regarding the variability within any dyslexic population, the apparent variety of forms that dyslexia can take. Given the complexity of the skills required to develop fluent reading and spelling perhaps this is not surprising. The variability within dyslexia may simply reflect the fact that this complex process can go wrong in different ways and for different reasons.

In this unit we turn to the nature of the arts and humanities themselves, and look at the main processes involved in studying them.

Broadly, when you study the arts and humanities you study aspects of culture. You explore people's ideas and beliefs, their cultural practices and the objects they have made. Human history is criss-crossed with the traces of people who did, said and made things and these people were to some extent aware of what they were doing. So all

Nov 21, 2014; iDASH External Webinar; Nigam Shah By: ucsd_idash Generating Practice-based Evidence from Electronic Health Records
Nigam Shah
Stanford University
Abstract:
In the era of Electronic Health Records, it is possible to examine the outcomes of decisions made by doctors during clinical practice to identify patterns of care—generating evidence from the collective experience of patients. We will discuss methods that transform unstructured patient notes into a de-identified, temporally ordered, patient-feature matrix. We will then revAuthor(s): No creator set